What's with the Fascist Symbol?

It's also present on the Colorado state seal.

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What I want to know is... WHy are fascist symbols so cool?
British Union of Fascists *snip*

Because sadly like all media-driven movements, they were completely style-over-substance. Our man Church didn't need a PR team to design him a flashy logo to do what he did. Although if he had one, it'd probably have been a Bulldog holding a whisky bottle and cigar over the union flag.
 
Also used in the logo of the Spanish Guardia Civil (semi-military police). The realization they still use the fasces symbol and those silly hats was a source of some amusement for me and my collegues when we visited Madrid a few years ago.

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Well Churchill did make use of the V for victory sign.
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"Sometimes I did it one way sometimes I did it the other sometimes I meant it one way sometimes the other" Quote from Churchill when asked how he did the V sign.;)
 
In Rome it also symbolized the person bearing it's power of both high and low justice. The rods to adminiter a beating the axe if it was a capitol offence. In early times actually used in later times symbolic.

I have heard that, but I've also heard that there's no direct evidence that a fasces was ever put into practical use - just lots of depictions of them being paraded around before generals and magistrates and so forth. But it does make sense that at some distant time, magistrates used to "unwrap" them and administer beatings or beheadings. And it makes plausible sense that these bundles of punishment wuold be forever on display as a warning, and eventually evolved into more general symbols of authority.

Near Chicago's Lakefront there's a statue of Christopher Columbus put up by the Italian American League or something in the 1920s. It has two fasces around the litle wall, and I've always wondered whether there was an actual fascist connection or not.

I can't find a clear photo online, but the circle is where the fasces appears. Kind of subtle, but definitely there.

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I'm not sure about the Columbus memorial, but not far from it is the Balbo Memorial that definitely espouses the triumph of Italian Fascism re: the Italo Balbo transatlantic flight to the Chi Century of Progress Fair in '33. There's even still a Balbo Drive in Chicago, which occasionally faces movements to change the name.
 
for those who dont want to read.

How hard is it to break one stick? Not very hard.
Bundle them together? Very Hard,

Power through Unity, Unity through the party

I beleive Genghis Khan used that analogy as well, though he talked about arrows not sticks
 
I beleive Genghis Khan used that analogy as well, though he talked about arrows not sticks

It's a generalised turcic legend. The most famous retelling I've heard was Khan Kubrat telling it to Batbayan, Asparukh, Kotrag and their brothers near his death. As is usual with these legends, they didn't listen and that's why the Great Bulgar split and fell apart.
 
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